Hedy

Where Hedy comes from

Hedy hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1914
    Hedy Lamarr born
    Austrian-American actress and co-inventor of an early technique for spread spectrum communications and frequency hopping
  2. 1915
    First appearance
    #3,434 among girls, 7 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  3. 1923
    Hedy Schlunegger born
    alpine skier
  4. 1941
    Peak, #693
    102 babies named Hedy — more than any year before or since.
  5. 1944
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,104.
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Hedy Lamarr · Austrian-American actress and co-inventor of an early technique for spread spectrum communications and frequency hopping, 1914–2000
  • Hedy Schlunegger · alpine skier, 1923–2003
  • Hedy Burress · American actress, born 1973
  • Hedy Bienenfeld · Austrian swimmer, 1907–1976
  • Hedy d'Ancona · Dutch politician, born 1937

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.